Secret of Mana for US Virtual Console News
Wii News by Robert Purchese
SNES role-playing classic Secret of Mana adorns the US Virtual Console this week. We don't usually bother to write about what's up there, but this a special occasion.
Secret of Mana, a Square JRPG from before the Enix merger, adopts a real-time combat system and top-down view, a bit like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Better still, the game boasts local co-operative play for up to three people.
There's a radial menu system present for spells and swapping weapons, which can be upgraded at blacksmiths, and you even get a dragon to fly around the world map later in the game. It's brilliant. The music's great too. And it's only 800 Wii Points (approx GBP 6 / EUR 8).
The US is also treated to World of Goo this week, the WiiWare version of the PC game we slapped 9/10 on rather recently. World of Goo costs rather more at 1500 Wii Points (approx GBP 11 / EUR 15).
Fingers crossed that these appear here on Friday, then.
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kinky_mong
14/10/08 @ 09:45
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I thought I played Secret of Mana when I was younger but a quick look on Wikipedia shows that I must be confusing it with a different SNES RPG.
Can anyone remember the name of a SNES RPG where you played as a boy with psycho-kinetic powers, and as the game progressed you could change into two other characters, one of which was some beefy knight with long blonde hair? |
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kinky_mong
14/10/08 @ 10:43
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^That's the one! Was pretty simple as RPG's go but was about my level back then.
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hrodelbert
14/10/08 @ 23:35
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Secret of Evermore is one of my favourite games, never really got into mana though
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